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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ?
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 14:06:06 -0600
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Adrian Hoe wrote in message <3e18f3f6_1@news.tm.net.my>...

>If there were Turbo Ada in the mid/late 80's, Ada could have been a
>mainstream programming language today. If there were M$ Visual Ada,


Of course there *was* a Turbo-like Ada in the mid 80's. Indeed, there
were several companies vying for that market. The basic Janus/Ada system
cost $99 then; it was validated in 1987, but versions were available
before that. Indeed, we still have that compiler (Janus/Ada 83 for
MS-DOS) available for $129. Perhaps the product could have been better
or the marketing better, but certainly low-cost Ada compilers existed
from the mid 80's onwards.

                   Randy Brukardt.